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This week on Three Kitchens Podcast, Erin has another mystery ingredient! Well, it's no mystery to you since it's there in the title, but it was a surprise to Heather when they sat down to record. It's quince -- a fruit from the rose family.

Quince can be quite astringent and not good to eat raw, so poaching is a great way to prepare the fruit before you add it to your recipe - in this case, a tart with apples and a delightful frangipane (almond paste) layer!

This tart recipe comes from Samin Nosrat, one of our favourite celebrity chefs. The quince is poached in wine for 2.5 hours. The pie crust is a simple butter pastry dough, rolled and chilled in the pan before you bake. First the frangipane goes down, then the quince and apple slices in a nice pattern. Erin sprinkled hers with a little rose sugar for extra sparkle.

This. Is. Delicious.

If quince sounds like a bit too much work, sub in other fruit, like plums, pears or apricots with the apples. Just don't skip the frangipane!

Episode Links

~ Quince, Apple & Frangipane Tart Recipe

~ Tart Dough Recipe

~ Fig & Goat Cheese Tart Recipe

~ No-Bake Chocolate Tart Episode (and the discussion about pie vs tart)

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This episode is a replay of S3, E7, with an all new updated intro!

We've got a recipe that's going to help you stretch your grocery dollars AND teach you a new skill or two. Erin's teaching us how to chop up a whole chicken into 11 pieces.

Cutting up.a whole chicken is a skill that saves you money on the price per kilogram that you're paying for meat—by as much as HALF! And by doing the work of breaking down the chicken ourselves, she's showing us how to use the back of a chicken, which normally goes unused, to make a delicious stock that goes further than just this meal! Be sure to check out Erin's video where she demonstrates breaking down the chicken (link below).

Not only will you love the money you're saving, you are going to love the delicious Costa Rican-inspired recipe that has great flavours, transforming leftover chicken into a delicious meal.

Episode Links

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~ Arroz con Pollo Recipe
~ How to Chop up a Chicken Instructional Video

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This week we're helping you get ready for Easter with a fun baking project! Erin takes on a sponge cake with a pretty Easter design. Are you ready to try it, too?

A sponge is a cake is a light cake that gets its texture from beaten eggs. When making a designed sponge cake, you separate some of the batter and colour it. Then you pipe the coloured batter onto the bottom of a pan in the design you want, then fill the pan the rest of the way with plain cake batter. When you flip it out, you have a beautifully-decorated cake -- without the trouble and extra sweetness of icing! Regular listeners probably know we are not big fans of decorating cakes, so this sounded like the perfect thing.

Well, Erin ended up having to bake this cake twice because she had some trouble with the first sponge recipe. This bake was a whole thing! Come along for the ride and learn all about baking a decorative cake before you begin your own. That's what we're here for - testing it out to give you the benefit of our experience!

Episode Links

~ Sponge Cake Recipe (Lemon Sponge Cake)

~ Baking Scraps Episode

~ Buche Noel Recipe

~ Whisk Mayo Like Your Life Depends on It Episode

~ Brunch Recipes with Deborah Johnson Episode

~ Roasted Berry Jam Recipe

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This week, Heather is flexing her creativity to create a Cream Egg Cupcake. It's a take on the popular Easter treat, the Cadbury Creme Egg, in cupcake form. They turned out pretty well, after some brainstorming on the approach in the first half of the episode! Plus, Erin and Heather chat about ways to zhuzh-up boxed cake mixes (because sometimes that's handy, right?).

At Three Kitchens, we're all about trying something new. Usually we prefer to have a recipe to follow, but what can you do? Sometimes there isn't one. In this case, there was an Instagram video with no recipe, but some vague details provided by helpfulish commenters. Probably not a baking project for an amateur, but what the heck. Let's go.

The chocolate cake Heather bakes up for these cupcakes is an easy recipe called One Bowl Chocolate Cake. The ingredients are mixed up together in one bowl (obvs), and then you add a cup of hot water, which makes a thin cake batter. She amped up the chocolate flavour by adding instant coffee to the water. The tops of the cooled cupcakes are then hollowed out to leave room for the cream egg filling.

In this case, the filling is a type of marshmallow fondant made by melting marshmallows and mixing in icing sugar until it's a pipe-able consistency. A small amount is coloured to look something like egg yolk, and then it's a game of filling cakes to look a little like a chocolate cream egg.

Give this one a try! It actually turned out super cute and it's a fun cupcake for Easter.

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In this episode of Three Kitchens Podcast, we welcome Kerrie Penney, host of Secret Heart Broadcasting, a podcast that explores heartfelt stories, personal experiences, and the connections that shape our lives. Kerrie is passionate about sharing the voices of her guests in an authentic and meaningful way.

She brings with her a special recipe from her childhood—Tomato Macaroni Soup. This comforting dish was a staple in her home, lovingly made by her mom. It was never written down. It was one of those recipes her mom made by feel -- a little of this, a pinch of that. But when Kerrie asked her mom to walk her through it, she made sure to preserve the recipe and now, she’s sharing it with us!

You begin by cooking a tomato base (which you can freeze for later when you want to make soup). We also found it delicious as a pasta or pizza sauce. Then you make a creamy white sauce, add in cooked macaroni, and then mix the white with the red, and you have a wonderful tomato macaroni soup. You can make it with fresh or canned tomatoes. Find a link to the recipe below.

A heartfelt thank you to Kerrie for joining us for a conversation about food, family and nostalgia.

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Episode Links

~ Tomato Macaroni Soup Recipe

~ S3 E48 CAKE is a Four-Letter Word (why we're tired of decorating birthday cakes)

~ S1 E3 Salt Preserved Lemons (Easy Peasy Lemon... Salty?)

~ S2 E8 Oma's Strudel episode

~ S4 E27 Jellied Salads So Beautiful and Delicious You Will Actually Want Them On Your Easter Table

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This week's episode is all about a pretty dessert square that requires absolutely zero decorating skills - just the way we like it around here! Erin makes a grapefruit shortbread square, but - plot twist! - she uses a pomelo instead of grapefruit (and a little lime zest).

Here's what Wikipedia tells us about the pomelo:

Pomelo is the largest citrus fruit. It is an ancestor of several cultivated citrus species, including the bitter orange and the grapefruit. It is a natural, non-hybrid, citrus fruit, native to Southeast Asia. Similar in taste to a sweet grapefruit, the pomelo is commonly eaten and used for festive occasions throughout Southeast and East Asia.

Erin felt inspired by the Paloma cocktail (see below for the link to our Speakeasy episode about that!) and wanted to make a dessert bar that recreates that grapefruit flavour. The base of the bar is a delicious shortbread cookie crust, which you parbake before adding the topping. Parbaking is when you partially bake the crust without the topping, to ensure a crisp bottom and prevent sogginess when you add the filling.

The tricky part of a citrus bar like this is getting the curd topping to set. It's made by whisking sugar, flour, eggs, citrus juice and zest, and a drop of food colouring if you wish. Pour it over the hot crust and then back it goes in the oven to finish it off. If all goes well, you will have a beautiful bar that just screams Springtime and Easter and, I don't know, birthday parties and high tea and summer picnics.

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Episode Links

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~ Grapefruit Squares Recipe

~ Lemon Curd Episode

~ Lemon Curd Trifle Recipe

~ Banana Date Cake Recipe

~ Paloma Speakeasy episode

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This special episode is in support of PODCASTHON 2025 - a global movement to raise awareness for charitable organizations!

In this episode, we welcome Lynn Gofflot from The Community Kitchen Program of Calgary. The Community Kitchen is the second largest food bank in Calgary, but they not only offer resources, they also offer support to individuals and families through education to empower them to change the poverty mindset, and take back some control in how they feed themselves and their families.

Through a number of innovative programs, The Community Kitchen helps teach individuals and families eat healthier while spending less on food. Their emphasis is on practical skills like budgeting, shopping and cooking, to help people facing food insecurity gain more control and self-reliance to one day move beyond needing these types of supports.

Learn more about The Community Kitchen Program of Calgary and how you can offer them your support.

To learn more about PODCASTHON, visit podcasthon.org and listen to more than 1,600 podcasts worldwide sharing stories of charitable work.

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Happy St. Paddy's day, everyone! With this day of celebration just around the corner, we're getting ready with a big warm bowl of Lamb Stew made with Guinness. And on the side, lovely little Yorkshire Puddings.

This is a basic sort of stew recipe, which most home cooks among us will be familiar with to some extent. No real special techniques required here! As usual, we recommend prepping (chopping veggies and meat, bundling or measuring herbs) in advance so you're set to go. And if you've never made a roux, here's your chance to get familiar with this technique of whisking flour into fat to thicken a sauce.

Yorkshire Puddings are a very simple recipe. A quick batter is poured into a hot muffin tin with oil and baked. That's it!

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Episode Links

~ Lamb Stew Recipe

~ Yorkshire Pudding Recipe

~ Icelandic Lamb Soup Recipe

~ Shepards' Pie Recipe

~ Funny Medicine podcast

~ Chatsworth Farm

~ persimmon pudding episode

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